Painter Mark Beard is a master of fiction. Working in the 1920s style of his imaginary gay great-uncle Bruce Sargeant, Beard creates images of athletes in various stages of dress and undress. This archly homoerotic, exquisitely rendered body of work is rounded out with paintings by Bruce's circle of friends and associates: his Classicist teacher, Modernist lesbian best friend, and Abstract Expressionist art-school rival. Critical essays, remembrances...

Una de las pruebas más contundentes de que Bertolt Brecht era un completo hombre de teatro se ve en el mejor de los montajes que dirigió: su propia vida. Este ensayo se pretende como una poética de la escena, que engloba la estética y se inspira en el concepto aristotélico para configurar un universo propio, en un lenguaje ágil y accesible; sus reflexiones parten del hecho vivo de las representaciones teatrales, no de frías lecturas de gabinete....

With its fanlike evergreen fronds, soft trunk, and strong root system, the palmetto is a wind-adapted palm that can bend with strong sea breezes without breaking or being uprooted. Emblematic of survival against opposition, the palmetto tree has captured the imaginations of South Carolinians for generations, appearing on the state seal since the American Revolution and on the state flag since 1861. The palmetto was named South Carolina's official...

Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is known first and foremost as a painter. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world, explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity and of the world. But Nicholas Roerich was as prolific a writer as he was a painter. He wrote books, poetry, and almost-daily essays on life and events (called Diary Leaves). Many of these writings have been unavailable for decades....

La autora analiza pinturas y dibujos realizados por Picasso en el verano de 1906 en Gósol. Habitualmente se ha considerado que buena parte de esta obra formaba parte—aunque una parte excéntrica y heterodoxa, por decirlo así—de la llamada "época rosa". La tesis de Jèssica Jaques es por completo diferente, pues no sólo considera que pinturas, esculturas y dibujos de este verano poseen una entidad propia, sino que suponen un cambio fundamental...

Pintor de costumbres, retratista de cortesanos y burgueses, pintor de leyendas, paisajista, pintor de la guerra y la violencia no menos que de la belleza y la felicidad, de la miseria y la elegancia, pintor de las lacras morales y sociales, de la superstición y la razón, nada fue ajeno a Francisco Goya. Lo pintó todo, y lo hizo en dibujos, grabados y pinturas al óleo y al fresco, sobre lienzo, hojalata, directamente sobre el muro, sobre papel,...

Twenty contemporary artists and writers reimagine Corita Kent's iconic creative manifesto. Known for her vibrant and powerful serigraphs, Corita Kent left an equally important legacy through her teaching. In the late 1960s, she and her students at the Immaculate Heart College developed their Art Department Rules. From "Consider everything an experiment" to "Be happy whenever you can manage it," these ten deceptively simple principles capture the...

In 2009, Roy Huteson Stewart set out on an expedition into unknown realms to chronicle the life and times, of the so-called "wickedest man in the world". His artwork for what would become the graphic novel, Aleister Crowley: Wandering the Waste is now, collected in its truest, rawest form. Here are the pencils, inks, and collages depicting all the glorious filth and splendor of a life lived at the extreme limits of human knowledge and sanity. Truly...

A central figure in pop art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the most significant and influential artists of the later twentieth century. In the 1960s he began to explore the growing interplay between mass culture and the visual arts, and his constant experimentation with new processes for the dissemination of art played a pivotal role in redefining access to culture and art as we know it today. • At the height of his fame, Warhol claimed he...

Paper Fledglings is a collection of art and poetry designed to take the reader on a journey through pain and loss and into hope and wonder. Like a fledgling getting ready to take flight for the first time, we grow and adapt to the world around us. Like paper, we bend and fold, sometimes even tear. Although we may find ourselves mended, we are no longer the same as before; we can be something beautiful.